The Uncomfortable Dead (26 page)

AMERICAN VISA

a novel by Juan de Recacoechea
translated by Adrian Althoff w/an afterword by Ilan Stavans
258 pages, trade paperback original, $14.95

“American Visa,
which won Bolivia’s National Book Prize in 1994 and was made into a movie in 2005, is both dark and quirky, a revealing excursion to a place over which ‘the gringos’ to the north always loom.”
—
New York Times Book Review

“Near-broke, provincial, middle-aged Mario Alvarez seems a bit like an older, only slightly wiser, but oddly more likable Holden Caulfield … A serious novel made palatable by humor as dry as the Andean uplands in which it is set.”
—
Kirkus Reviews

ANDEAN EXPRESS

a novel by Juan de Recacoechea
translated by Adrian Althoff
176 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

“It takes a gutsy publisher like Akashic to bring the works of the Bolivian novelist Juan de Recacoechea into English. Subtle, nuanced, elegantly
styled, Andean Express
is a great introduction to this gifted author’s work … It’s the interchange between the characters that’s at the heart of this novel. De Recacoechea has touches of the old noir masters like Jim Thompson, but the voice is uniquely his …”
—
Globe and Mail
(Canada)

SOUTHLAND

a novel by Nina Revoyr
350 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

*Winner of the Lambda, Ferro-Grumley, and ALA Stonewall awards

“The plot line of
Southland
is the stuff of a James Ellroy or a Walter Mosley novel … But the climax fairly glows with the good-heartedness that Revoyr displays from the very first page.”
—
Los Angeles Times

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